Ariel Helwani and crew discuss Merab Dvalishvili’s impressive win at UFC Las Vegas, the issues with Power Slap, the best and division in the UFC, how Bellator’s champs stack up against the UFC, Bellator 292, how successful the Davis vs. Garcia PPV will be, and more.
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49 Comments
Lmao Ariel I’m sorry but Rumble and Power slap are MOST DEFINITELY getting traffic. As ridiculous as it is, some people actually watch Power Slap. You might be slippin a lil, might need to catch up to the times.
Why would they have made the apex to not host events there? I agree with you Ariel. It’s so much better when they have fight nights at a arena. It just doesn’t make business sense I believe. They built the apex for training, medical and fights.
Bantamweight is the toughest division right now
Rumble is a social media site for incels where there is no “censorship”
Not knowing what Rumble is is being out of touch.
These 3 together are great! Fun to listen
How the hell can you argue bellators champs rival the UFC when you freely admit they have no competition. You don't think the 7th ranked guy in each of the UFCs division wouldn't dominate bellator if they were there
Ariel kinda just goes — doesn’t often back up his opinions on fighting and almost always loses the plot 😂
Cody still fighting because he wants to. Bit covid aged him 10 years minimum. Shortened those telomeres nicely. It's a chronic infection. He got injured internally.
“ONE of those losses is controversial”?? Is this a dig at Petr? He’s lost 1 by DQ which he dominated before (easily the worst way to win a title) and lost 2 split decisions, one being the top 3 worst high profile decisions in years. Get outta here my guy.
Gilbert did make a deal out of usman being “ his brother “ and crying like a little girl so yeah you remember that one abit wrong
You did see how Ariel was changing his arguments about ho was the best weightclass. Then its was the most interesting. Then it was only the top 5🤣🤦🤦. Ariel you were wrong!!!!!
Fresh fighters ho didn't fight for the belt is not the best fighters ARIEL. Lightweight is the best weightclass for years!!!
The deepest and most stacked division will always be the men’s 155lb division.
I wish UFC did a Grand Prix style tournaments for BW division
Anyone want to help me start a promotion called "Steel Boot". 1 v 1 the "athletes" take turns kicking each other in the balls?
Man Ariel is such a hater bro legit! I'm actually sick of hearing him, the past maybe month or two I haven't watched he's too much!
Bro Ariel is so out of touch legit makes me laugh! He has no idea because 45k to any of those people in the slap crap is alot of money most people don't even make that a year ! Also even if they were to make 10 and 10 what's wrong with that ? Honestly ? One slap half the time!
Gotta say Rick is my favourite honestly because he's honest and don't let he's emotions get the best of him! Like as if Petr isn't one of the best lmfao like he would kill cody
He’s not fighting Aljo everrrrrrrr
Well Bellator has one way to show their dominance. If their fighters come to ufc and win belts and then go back to Bellator I mean hey. But they have talented fighters for sure
Wait so Ariel does have a price to do power slap. Dana if you want rating ….
Ric back to his hipster takes. Funk master knows what’s up.
Ariel was running with that goal post 😂😂😂
Batam weight is the deepest, SAID just got knocked off and his striking is one of the best since Zabit!!
Come on Ariel lmao Islam vs Beneil is a fire ass fight. The no sell on that was ridiculous. I think Bantamweight is best division but Ariel was def moving goal posts in all arguments!
Why is everyone acting like this Merab Aljo thing won’t work itself out? Merab won’t be ready to fight for months. Aljo has a fight. Cheto is next. Then you got Omally. Chill people. Merab will be good
Merab is playing UFC with stamina drain turned off. In the real world we call that EPO. I missed the fight but I'm unsure how you don't take an uppercut or knee after you attempt 49 takedowns. It's cool that Yan fended off 38 of them, but the fact is he should have been able to make Merab pay for even the attempts. Without watching the fight it's hard for me to believe Merab had 49 clean well timed and disguised takedowns or if Yan just didn't react appropriately.
I have never seen a "sport" in which one side doesn't play any defense. Seems pretty obvious that Dana saw all of those views on short slap videos and got convinced he could make it into a league.
You know what else has a lot of views though? People getting murdered by the cartel, people mutilating themselves, all sorts of car and other accidents, etc. Guess what though I don't want a train vs. car league.
Ariel isn’t moving the goal post imo. He makes sense.
155 sucks right now. Islam going to destroy everyone. Dustin and Frankie Edgar are my two of my favourite fighters but Dustin isn’t that guy anymore, most of the 155’ers just aren’t at that level anymore due to lack of motivation, age or other factors
135 is definitely superior to 155 imo
And 125 is better than 115 as well.
Chuck and Tito IMO was the biggest title fight that made best friends into enemies.
Casey O'Neal with the Dana reference
For real, Ariel!!! Hales To Da Nawl on the Powerslap BS!!!
Bantamweight is the deepest and that's something that mostly the hardcores will know & care about but LW is deep & generates more interest in both the hardcore & casual spheres (i.e it gets more eyeballs).
I don’t understand why people say that the top 5 at lightweight only fight each other. They’ve each only fought each other one time and it all made sense at the time.
As usual him harping on how he hates Dana White
Bellator have good fighters but come on,be real about the situation,its difficult to compare them to ufc fighters because bellator fighters face fighters that either got cut or left ufc because they wernt good enough to compete,of course these champions look good they have way lesser competition to constantly compete with,ufc fighters face pretty much the best around consistently,Even Kevin Lee would fit into all this,in bellator for god sake.Some times I think Ariel just wants a Scott Coker autograph to try make Dana jealous or something.
Well I know it’s jus hater talk mostly cus Ariel and Dana don’t like each other but as far as them
Shoving power slap down our throats I mean why on earth wouldn’t he weave it in with ufc that’s like McDonald’s not promoting say a hot dog shop they buy… what they gonna do tell a random dude ok the street “here figure out how to get views with this” when he has a platform like the ufc … anyway
135 is the deepest. Lightweight has a bunch of old guard with loses
The fight changed after Petr Yan's calf was heavily compromised from that kick and couldn't attack from his dominant side.
That was hilarious when Aljo & Casey were texting & calling in, in real time 😂
Aljo amd merab sound like a gay couple
Merab is the best ‘least inefficient take down fighter’ in UFC history 😁… 11 out of 49 attempts = 22%. Lol
Ny Rick can be spot on, but he's got a negative energy.
Also Merab has a big anvil for a head with a thick neck which is a recipe for someone who can takea lot of punishment and keep coming.
Welterweight. Welterweight is the deepest division but has a few inactive fighters
"I follow the UFC, I don't follow this nonsense" he says as he promotes wrestling on the MMAFighting page on all social media 😂
Y is it stupid for marib not to fight aljo but yet u say much respect for usman never fighting Islam if he were to come over to ufc
Can you imagine mvp vs leon in england?.. wow